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BeetleByesterday at 8:30 PM1 replyview on HN

People who are particular about spelling do not want to write misspelled words! It's not about whether you/others will tolerate it. I have my standards, and I hold to them.

I personally don't use an LLM to spellcheck (browser spellcheck works fine), but I see no problem with someone using an LLM to point out spelling errors.

And while I don't complain about others' spelling errors, I sure do notice them. And if someone writes a long wall of text as one giant paragraph that has lots of spelling/grammatical issues, chances are very high I won't read it.

Some people write very poorly by almost any standard. If an LLM helps the person write better, I'm all for it. There's a world of a difference between copy/pasting from the LLM and asking it for feedback.


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the_afyesterday at 8:43 PM

> I have my standards, and I hold to them.

Spellcheckers exist, you don't need an AI to change your voice.

Also, if you have standards, you can always train yourself to spell better!

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